Igor Bezler

Igor Bezler (born 1965) is a Russian GRU agent who was a provocateur of pro-Russian militants during the Ukrainian Civil War.

Biography
Bezler was born in Simferopol in the Crimean Oblast of the Soviet Union, and until 2002 he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the GRU, a Russian intelligence agency. However, in 2014 Bezler was contacted by the Russian authorities when the Russians invaded Crimea and a political crisis threatened the Ukraine following the February Ukrainian Revolution, and after taking part in the takeover of government facilities in Crimea alongside Self-Defense Forces, he aided the People's Republic of Donetsk in taking over the city from Ukraine.